@entry-title: Exodus from Blogger
@creation-date: 2014-07-22
Today, I'm free from Blogger. No longer must I maintain the nasty hacks that
make blog.traas.org work. I'm free.
As I mentioned in a [previous entry][nogoogle], I'd like to reduce my dependency
on Google Apps. Writing a static blogging engine took longer than I thought.
Actually, I finished the code months ago, but I was too lazy to clean up the
garbage code that Blogger's editor generated and convert into
[Markdown][markdown].
The thing that finally got me off my butt was some weird server flag that caused
a recent build of Chrome to try using HTTPS with *.traas.org, whilst Blogger
does not support HTTPS.
If you subscribe to my RSS feed, nothing should change. The redirects should
just work for you. Cacheing is slightly wonky, with my application cache, server
cache, and CDN often acting strangely with each other.
Also, the convention common on static Markdown blogs of adding '.md' to the page
URL listing the Markdown source [is implemented here][self_md].
Feel free to report any bugs. Thanks in advance.
[nogoogle]: {base-url}blog/exit-from-google
[markdown]: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
[self_md]: {base-url}blog/blogger-exodus.md